GOLDFIELDS PLAZA Open 7am-5pm Mon-Fri Winter trade hours 8-3pm Sat No 512, OCTOBER 2017 | FOR THE COMMUNITY, BY THE COMMUNITY | Editorial & Advertising: 9844 0555 Email: [email protected] INSIDE Warrandyte faces North East Link threat P3 Warrandyte votes on same sex marriage P5 Dance floor October is Open Day donation season P8 FOLLOWING the Warrandyte community’s now is the time to make your own preparations. incredible effort raising $70,000 at last year’s See pages 10–11 for more on Fireball’s great result for Fireball, Julie Quinton and the Fireball team hand the community and about how to prepare yourself, over the keys to Warrandyte CFA’s new fire-fighting your animals and your property for this summer’s appliance — just in time for this year’s fire season. bushfire season. 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AFSL No.: 430062 9844 1444 2 Warrandyte Diary OCTOBER 2017 OVEROVER THE THE HILLS HILLS By JOCK MACNEISH CO-EDITORS: Sandi Miller & James Poyner, 9844 0555 [email protected] PUBLISHER: Warrandyte Diary Pty Ltd (ACN 006 886 826 ABN 74 422 669 097) as trustee for the Warrandyte Arts and Education Trust POSTAL ADDRESS: P.O. Box 209, Warrandyte 3113 ADVERTISING & ACCOUNTS: Briony Bottarelli, 9844 0555 DIARY OFFICE: Community Centre, 168-178 Yarra Street, Warrandyte GENERAL ENQUIRIES: [email protected] EMAIL SPORT: (Michael Di Petta) [email protected] WEBSITE: www.warrandytediary.com.au PRODUCTION: Catherine Kleynjan PRINTING: Newsprinters, 7940 Melbourne Road, Shepparton VIC 3632 Published on or about the second Tuesday of each month (except January). ADVERTISING RATES $8.40 a column centimetre. One col Front page “ears” $105 width: 40mm. Two col width: 84mm. 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Although it has developed over the years, it has retained its strong community character, being produced mostly by volunteers with only one aim: to serve its community. Financed solely through advertising, it guards its not-for-profit, non-commercial status and its independent voice. The Diary carries a strong editorial bias towards the people, environment and character of the place it serves. Its monthly circulation is 3500 copies and it is available in Warrandyte, North Warrandyte, South Warrandyte, Park Orchards, Wonga Park, Warran- wood, North Ringwood, Kangaroo Ground and Research. A SPECIAL PLACE Warrandyte (approximate population 8000) is situated on the Yarra River, some 27km from Melbourne. For countless ages a well-stocked hunting ground of the Wurundjeri people, in 1851 Warrandyte became the site of the first official gold discovery in Victoria. It soon established its character as a small, self-sustaining community set in a beautiful river valley. Around 1900 the miners, orchardists and tradespeople were joined by a number of young painters who were founding the Australian nationalist arts tradition. Now a By ALAN CORNELL commuter suburb of Melbourne, the natural beauty, community spirit and sense FIVE MINUTES OF FAME of independence of Warrandyte has been largely retained. This newspaper is the voice and true expression of that spirit. HIS month Diary reporter Tracy Can’t argue with that. Any others? I can’t imagine! Dickson goes backstage at the Stage Whispers said “Trudy Drench was But they did put me in the Christmas pageant. Warrandyte Theatre Company to talk believable as a checkout girl” and the I was the only Wise Man to offer the baby to leading lady Trudy Drench. Manningham Leader said “In the role of Jesus Chupa Chups. The other wise guys were Charlotte Miss Trench was solid.” That was incensed! Trudy, you can’t imagine how thrilled I am to meet you! a little upsetting but I’ve lost five kilograms So tell us about your first time on the 42K Media since then. Warrandyte stage? Oh don’t be silly, of course I can! We’ve enjoyed you in so many Well I got my start in the Follies. Copywriting local productions - Lord of the Following in the footsteps of other Ring Road, Waiting for the 906 Warrandyte thespians? via the Pines, The Importance of Exactly! I was the rear end of a horse. Blog Posts - News Articles - Copy Editing Being Important. What’s been your favourite part? And you progressed from there? Proofing - Press Releases - DTP I think the part I liked most was Yes, the following year I was in the Charlotte the checkout girl in front. Video Production Who’s Afraid of Julie Quinton! Don’t you get nervous up on stage What a triumph! The audiences in front of all those people? Corporate Videos - Commercials loved you! I do, but I just imagine everyone in They did, didn’t they. I don’t want the audience without any clothes on. Events & Conferences - Interviews to seem humble or anything but When Jock Macneish comes I find it audiences really seem to relate very hard to concentrate. Post Production to me. I think they see me as an I’ll have to start wearing better ordinary person, just like them, underwear. Speaking of which, even though in reality I’m not. Contact James & Sandi is it true you have a number 0458 218 380 or 0429 121 969 You’re so talented. of tattoos from plays you’ve It’s lovely of you to point that out. appeared in? But it’s such a blessing to be able I have Hedda Gabler on my left No project too big or too small to touch people at a very deep shoulder, Blithe Spirit on my right and personal level. Like in that shoulder and What The Butler Saw Great rates for Warrandytians heart-rending scene where I’m on my upper thigh. saying goodbye to my brave little dog, Oodles… So what’s next for Trudy Drench? [email protected] Are you appearing in WTC’s next When you drop him off at production of Brief Encounter? Allendale… I am. I play Madison, a home keeper It was very emotional, and I from Nunawading who is buying a remember looking out into the audience and seeing a man in the choctop from the kiosk on Platform So Trudy, did you come from a dramatic 2 at Ringwood Station when she meets Roger, OCTOBER third row with tears literally streaming down family? his cheeks. an Optometrist from Eastland, who sweeps Definitely. Sometimes at the end of a meal her off her feet. Quilts and That was probably the bloke next to me. He Dad would throw the dishes into the fireplace. put his hand on my knee and I stabbed him A risky thing to do on a railway platform! Rugs in the thigh with my pencil. Was he Greek? Exactly. She has a husband and two children 2B? No he was a product tester for Corelle. waiting at home, not to mention a cat with a 232 Yarra St urinary tract infection! All interspersed with Warrandyte Not 2B, HB. Anyway I seem to remember So when did you realise you had a talent Hoggy and BB gave that play mixed for acting? some delightful little ditties by Noel Coward! 0411 528 142 reviews. Do you read reviews? I was always a bit of a mimic. I remember Which leads me to ask, Trudy, how do you Oh, you know, I glance at them. I may have a ringing the school as a child and explaining manage with all those lines? few in my scrapbook. Oh yes, here’s your one that Trudy wouldn’t be coming today because I can’t remember. from the Diary! she had a bad case of conjunglevinus. I had HOURS Trudy Drench, break a leg! Fri, Sat, Sun: 11am-5.30pm What did I say? Mum’s voice absolutely down pat so I don’t know how they knew it was me! Chookas! “Trudy Drench played Charlotte.” OCTOBER 2017 Warrandyte Diary 3 Warrandyte faces Ring Road as Bulleen says NO to NELA By SANDI MILLER the same route through the southwest help the Authority to focus their risk unqualified objection to options B Cr Kleinert successfully proposed to RESIDENTS FROM across of Warrandyte while Option D takes management processes while NELA and C.